Today’s Dan Piraro Bizarro cartoon, in which the roles of ordinary life are Bizarro-reversed:
(#1) Those are living, breathing inkblots sitting in the chairs: a therapist inkblot showing a picture to a client inkblot; where you expect people, you get inkblot entities, and where you expect the picture of an inkblot, you get the picture of a person (in the title panel and the main panel, there are a ton of odd symbols; if you’re puzzled by them, see this Page)
Abstracting away from the details, we’re looking at two instances of the situation XXY:
— XXY: a situation in which three entities — two Xs (a therapist and a client) and a Y — are participants in an event in which the therapist X shows a reproduction of a Y to the client X
In the everyday world, we have:
— Routine XXY: a person (a therapist) shows a reproduction of an inkblot to another person (a client)
While in this Bizarro world, we get:
— Bizarro XXY: an inkblot (a therapist) shows a reproduction of a person to another inkblot (a client)
Same organization, but with the roles X and Y of the everyday world reversed in this Bizarro world.
Inkblots. From my 1/10/21 posting “Rorschach v. Magritte”: about this Bizarro cartoon:
(#2) Rorschach’s inkblots against Magritte’s disavowal This is not a pipe
The posting includes a section on the inkblots as projective psychological test. (And no, I don’t know if the Swiss Rorschach and the Belgian Magritte ever met.)
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